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Hoon Lee

Hoon Lee, Daejeon KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090135947METHOD OF SELECTING CANDIDATE VECTOR AND METHOD OF DETECTING TRANSMISSION SYMBOL - The present invention relates to a method of detecting a candidate vector and a method of detecting a transmission symbol using the same. According to an embodiment of the present invention, in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system using spatial multiplexing (SM), a receiver selects candidate vectors corresponding to a layer located at a last row among a plurality of rearranged layers, and sequentially ranks constellation dots of a next layer for each of the selected candidate vectors. Then, a plurality of arbitrary constellation dots are selected from the ranked constellation dots, accumulated costs of the arbitrary constellation dots are calculated, and a candidate vector is selected in correspondence with a constellation dot having a minimal accumulated cost. Then, a new arbitrary constellation dot is selected in place of the constellation dot selected as the candidate vector, an accumulated cost of the selected arbitrary constellation dot is compared with accumulated costs of the other arbitrary constellation dots, and another candidate vector is selected.05-28-2009
20090147892METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CANCELING INTERFERENCE - An apparatus for canceling interference includes a plurality of converters, a plurality of interference cancellation units, a plurality of variance detectors, and an output selecting unit. The plurality of converters converts a plurality of received signals to a plurality of frequency domain signals, respectively. The plurality of interference cancellation units cancel interference in the plurality of frequency domain signals using a plurality of interference cancellation schemes to generate a plurality of interference-canceled signals corresponding to the plurality of interference cancellation schemes, respectively. The plurality of variance detectors measure a plurality of amounts of residual interference corresponding to the plurality of interference-canceled signals, respectively. The output selecting unit selects a single interference-canceled signal with the least amount of residual interference from the plurality of interference-canceled signals, based on the plurality of amounts of residual interference.06-11-2009
20100142654METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL DETECTION BASED ON MMSE IN MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a multi-input multi-output communication system receiving signals transmitted through a plurality of transmission antennas by using a plurality of reception antennas, a matrix determining a position of a symbol to be detected from a received signal is calculated at a first symbol detection step, and from the subsequent step, a matrix at the current step is acquired through a simple relationship from the matrix calculated at the previous step to determine a position of a symbol to be detected.06-10-2010
20100142661DEVICE FOR GAIN CONTROL AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING SIGNAL - The present invention relates to a device for gain control and a method for receiving a signal. The device for gain control according to the present invention includes a map interpreter that detects beamforming symbol periods in wireless signals, a power calculator that calculate the average power of the beamforming symbol periods in response to outputs of the map interpreter, a gain calculator that calculates gain control signals on the basis of the output signals of the power calculator, and a switch that outputs gains from the gain control signals, in which the wireless signals are corrected on the basis of the gains.06-10-2010
20100246548BASE STATION, METHOD FOR MANAGING CELL, METHOD FOR DETECTION SIGNAL, TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL THEREOF - A base station according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a receiver receiving environment information of a first terminal from the first terminal positioned at a cell boundary and receiving usable resource information from a neighbor base station; a resource allocator allocating a resource to the first terminal on the basis of the usable resource information; and a transmitter transmitting information on the resource allocated to the first terminal to the neighbor base station.09-30-2010
20100272205METHOD FOR DETECTING SIGNAL, DEVICE FOR DETECTING SIGNAL, AND RECEIVING DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method for detecting a signal, a device for detecting a signal, and a receiving device. A method for detecting a signal according to the present invention is a method for detecting a signal from a receiving device in a communication system including a multi-output multi-input antenna, including: estimating a channel matrix of a signal received from a plurality of receiving antennas; generating at least one channel matrix groups by aligning the channel matrix and generating at least one transmitting signal group by aligning a transmitting signal to be estimated to correspond thereto; determining a first candidate vector in consideration of all constellation points for a first layer of the at least one transmitting signal group; determining a second candidate vector in consideration of all constellation points for a second layer of the at least one transmitting signal group; generating a final candidate vector including the first candidate vector and the second candidate vector; and calculating a soft output using the final candidate vector.10-28-2010

Patent applications by Hoon Lee, Daejeon KR

Hoon Lee, Gyeonggi-Do KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100154450Air Conditioning System Using Dehumidifying Cooling Device - An air conditioning system using for a dehumidifying cooling device has developed that comprising a heating source for producing hot water, a heat exchanger for transferring heat from the hot water to circulating water, a circulation pump for circulating the resulting hot water heated in the heat exchanger, a heating pipeline connected to the circulation pump for conveying the hot water to a heat supply target area, a user heat exchanger connected to the heating pipeline for conveying hot water to the heat supply target area, a dehumidifying cooling device connected to a hot water pipe of users heat exchanger and installed in each household within the heat supply target area, the dehumidifying cooling device removing moisture from the air by using hot water supplied from the hot water pipe to deal with latent heat load and to lower the temperature of the dehumidified air via evaporation of water contained in the air.06-24-2010
20100212345Dehumidifying Cooling Device for District Heating - A dehumidifying cooling device for district heating is developed that comprising; a case with partitions divided into interior, which are a wet channel consisting of an outside air suction, exhaust and a dry channel for circulated air suction from conditioning area and air supply; a rotating sensible heat exchanger to heat exchange outside air of wet channel with the circulated air in the dry channel; a heating coil between the sensible heat exchanger and the exhaust for raising the temperature of outside air; a dehumidifying wheel for adsorbing and removing moisture contained in the circulated air; the dehumidifying wheel being regenerated by evaporating the adsorbed moisture thereby supplying the evaporated moisture into the high-temperature outside air in the wet channel, and a regenerative-evaporative cooler installed between the circulated air supply and the sensible heat exchanger for cooling the circulated air in the dry channel, the cooled circulated air delivered to the air supply.08-26-2010

Hoon Lee, Seoul KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090091333STACKED SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS WITH CONFIGURABLE VERTICAL I/O - The present invention provides an apparatus including a stacked plurality of devices and a related method. The apparatus includes a stacked plurality of devices including a master device and at least one secondary device; a plurality of segments, each segment being associated with one of the stacked plurality of devices; and a plurality of N vertical connection paths traversing the stacked plurality of devices. The apparatus further includes a plurality of M vertical signal paths configured from the plurality of N vertical connections paths, wherein M is less than N, and at least one of the plurality of M vertical signal paths is a merged vertical signal path adaptively configured by the master device using at least one segment from each one of at least two of the plurality of N vertical connection paths.04-09-2009
20090115473LOOP FILTER, PHASE-LOCKED LOOP, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE LOOP FILTER - A loop filter capable of controlling a charge sharing point in time, a phase locked loop, and a method of operating the loop filter are provided. The loop filter includes a duty control unit and a variable capacitor unit. The duty control unit generates a duty control clock signal of which an activation section is shorter than an inactivation section, by controlling a duty of an input clock signal. The variable capacitor unit is charged by an input current and has a capacitance that varies according to the duty control clock signal. The variable capacitor unit may include a switch, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. The switch is turned on or off in response to the duty control clock signal. The first capacitor is serially connected to the switch and charged by the input current when the switch is turned on. The second capacitor is connected in parallel to the switch and the first capacitor and charged by the input current.05-07-2009
20100001379Multi-chip package (MCP) having three dimensional mesh-based power distribution network, and power distribution method of the MCP - A MCP includes a plurality of semiconductor memory devices, the plurality of semiconductor memory devices being stacked to define a three-dimensional (3D) structure, and a mesh structure, the mesh structure interconnecting the plurality of semiconductor memory devices to define a 3D mesh-based power distribution network.01-07-2010
20100020583Stacked memory module and system - A three dimensional memory module and system are formed with at least one slave chip stacked over a master chip. Through semiconductor vias (TSVs) are formed through at least one of the master and slave chips. The master chip includes a memory core for increased capacity of the memory module/system. In addition, capacity organizations of the three dimensional memory module/system resulting in efficient wiring is disclosed for forming multiple memory banks, multiple bank groups, and/or multiple ranks of the three dimensional memory module/system.01-28-2010
20100177572SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING PAGE SIZE - A semiconductor device includes a memory cell array comprising a plurality of banks and a page size controller. The page size controller decodes a part of a bank selection address or a power supply voltage and a remaining part of the bank selection address to enable one of the plurality of banks or enable two of the plurality of banks to set a page size of the semiconductor device.07-15-2010
20110248740STACKED SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS WITH CONFIGURABLE VERTICAL I/O - The present invention provides an apparatus including a stacked plurality of devices and a related method. The apparatus includes a stacked plurality of devices including a master device and at least one secondary device; a plurality of segments, each segment being associated with one of the stacked plurality of devices; and a plurality of N vertical connection paths traversing the stacked plurality of devices. The apparatus further includes a plurality of M vertical signal paths configured from the plurality of N vertical connections paths, wherein M is less than N, and at least one of the plurality of M vertical signal paths is a merged vertical signal path adaptively configured by the master device using at least one segment from each one of at least two of the plurality of N vertical connection paths.10-13-2011

Patent applications by Hoon Lee, Seoul KR

Hoon Lee, Yongin KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100154455Dehumidifying Cooling Device for District Heating - Disclosed is a dehumidifying cooling device for district heating which comprises; a case having a first partition to divide the interior of the case into a wet channel and a dry channel and a second partition to divided the wet channel into a first wet channel and a second wet channel, a sensible heat exchanger to heat exchange the outside air in the first wet channel with the outside air in the second wet channel, a heating coil for raising the temperature of the outside air in the second wet channel, a rotatable de humidifying wheel for adsorbing and removing moisture contained in the circulated air within the dry channel, and a regenerative-evaporative cooler for cooling the circulated air in the dry channel. With this configuration, the device can carry out an air cooling operation by use of hot water supplied by district heating systems and gas or oil boilers installed in individual households, thereby achieving a reduced device size via the implementation of the cooling operation under the atmospheric pressure state and reducing manufacturing costs by virtue of a simplified system configuration.06-24-2010

Hoon Lee, Irvine, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090219100VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR GAIN CALIBRATION FOR TWO-POINT MODULATION IN A PHASE-LOCKED LOOP - A phase-locked loop (PLL) is arranged to receive high-pass data at a first input and low-pass data at a second input. A first digital input is coupled to a primary path through a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and a second digital input is coupled to a feedback path of the PLL. The controller provides the first input and the second input during a calibration procedure. The controller adjusts first and second control inputs in an attempt to keep the input voltage to a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) in the PLL constant while determining the gain of the VCO in Hz/LSB.09-03-2009

Patent applications by Hoon Lee, Irvine, CA US

Hoon Lee, Seongnam-Si KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110249483STACKED MEMORY DEVICE HAVING INTER-CHIP CONNECTION UNIT, MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF COMPENSATING FOR DELAY TIME OF TRANSMISSION LINE - A stacked semiconductor memory device is provided which includes a first memory chip including a first transmission line, a second transmission line, and a logic circuit configured to execute a logic operation on a first signal of the first transmission line and a second signal of the second transmission line. The stacked semiconductor memory device further includes a second memory chip stacked over the first memory chip, an inter-chip connection unit electrically coupled between the second memory chip and the first transmission line of the first memory chip, and a dummy inter-chip connection unit electrically coupled to the second transmission line of the first memory chip and electrically isolated from the second memory chip.10-13-2011

Hoon Lee, Peoria, IL US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110265560ENGINE MISFIRE DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM APPROXIMATION - A method of detecting a misfire of an engine includes determining a range of sub-harmonic frequencies of one of a crankshaft sensor signal and an engine speed signal. The range of sub-harmonic frequencies is determined based on a fundamental frequency. The sub-harmonic frequencies are less than the fundamental frequency. Frequency content magnitudes are generated based on the range of the sub-harmonic frequencies and a Discrete Fourier Transform of at least one of the crankshaft sensor signal and an engine speed signal. An energy from velocity non-uniformity (EVN) signal is generated based on the frequency content magnitudes and the range of the sub-harmonic frequencies. The misfire is detected based on the EVN signal and a misfire threshold.11-03-2011